[scuderiaseb]

Great perspective! As a sidenote, I really like json5 for everything that would be needed for a human to read and it has great support everywhere. It fixes so many of JSONs shortcomings like comments.

Edit: forgot the link if anyone’s interested https://json5.org/

[hn_throwaway_99]

Agreed, I really feel JSON5 should just be the default standard. But the fact that it's still not means it can't be used in a bunch of places where it would be an obvious improvement, for example, in package.json files - and fwiw I don't understand the NPM team's objection to using it.

[beart]

As long as the file extension changes to align with the format, that sounds great. There are far too many abuses of .json that allow comments, trailing commas, etc.